Kleiber gets some ravishing sounds from the Vienna Philharmonic, and his reading of the score is as Straussian and as perfect as you are likely to encounter in this world. The sound is very natural... — Penguin Guide, 2010 edition, ***More…

Patrice Chéreau's production is full of strokes of near-genius from old (Chéreau, his regular set designer Richard Peduzzi, his photogenic Don Alfonso, Ruggero Raimondi), not so old (Barbara... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010More…

the Paris production by Robert Carsen of Rameau's astonishing last opera, Les Boréades, is brilliantly sumptuous if cold, while Pierre Audi's typically sharp and forceful Castor et Pollux from... — The Observer, 1st May 2011More…

The strongest point in its favour is its communication of the work's austere power: a music-drama that both sums up the past and looks far into the future...The characters, whether or not one... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2011, **More…

Release Date: 26th Apr 2011

Catalogue No: 107181

Label: Arthaus Musik

2 DVD Videos

$30.75

Format: NTSC, Region: All

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